Files not showing up in /mnt/cdrom

Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

When I try to display all the files on my /mnt/cdrom. Nothing displays. It just goes to the next line and says "root cdrom #" like there is no files there. I know that there is stuff on that disk because I put it on my windows machine and it displayed there. Help is much appreciated.

John5788 · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:41 am Post subject:

did you mount it first? if not, run this command as root:

Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

it says mount: special device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 does not exist.

John5788 · Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:55 am Post subject:

then ur missing something in the kernel i believe. check under the filesystems, look for something like ISO or something. im not at my gentoo comp right now so i cant tell u
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Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

the ISO9660 File system IS configured in my kernel configuration. (config_ISO9660_FS=y). And in my fstab, the /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is set as an ISO9660 Filesystem.

Frozensun · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Oct 2003 Posts: 82

what happens when you do a

Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

ls: /dev/cdroms: (I also tried cdrom) No such file or directory

Rainmaker · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 2:06 am Post subject:

is your cdrom getting detected on start-up (check "dmesg")

also, try

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
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Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

When I try to mount hdc it still says that it is an invalid block device. Is there any way to be able to see all of what dmesg says? Because all I can see is the bottom portion because my screen is not big enough. Thanks.

Rainmaker · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 4:02 am Post subject:

dmesg > foo

creates a textfile with everything in it

dmesg | more

gives you the possibility to scroll on-screen
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Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

Ok, I figured out that the cdrom is under /dev/hdb. But when I mount it, it says its mounting read only, and I still can't see whats on the disc. Could this have to do with being read-only? And is there any way to get read-write privlidges? Thank you.

yuza · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 11:37 pm Post subject:

Well it's normal for a cdrom to be mounted read-only... is it a multisession cdrom? I've read somewhere that you might have to specify extra options to mount them.
By the way you are probably missing something in your kernel configuration... double check both the filesystem section and the ide/atapi one and then recompile it if necessary.

Rainmaker · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:11 am Post subject:

Shrapnel · n00b Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 23

It worked. Thanks to all of you for your help.